Pointer options

In this lesson we are going to explore some of the tools you have at your disposal during a presentation when you want…to bring attention to an area on a slide or add some emphasis, for example.…I am talking about using a pen to highlight areas.…We can use our pointer to do a couple of different things using a shortcut menu.…We are going to look at keyboard shortcuts and how important they are during a presentation to avoid distraction.…So you can see I have already got my presentation set up here…from the previous lesson but if you skip to this lesson, no sweat.…If you've got the exercise files, open up UserConf10b and you'll have what I have.…

I am on slide number one.…So we are ready to start our presentation.…We click the Slide Show button and there is our first slide, which happens to be a blank slide.…So we know we can click to move to the next slide.…If you move your mouse button around you can see how the pointer appears out of nowhere.…If you don't touch your mouse for a moment it will eventually disappear.…

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3/4/2008

From the most basic to the very advanced, instructor David Rivers explores the application's possibilities in PowerPoint 2008 for Mac Essential Training. David teaches users how to create, edit, and share professional slideshows and presentations. He demonstrates how to efficiently navigate presentations, apply custom themes, place and edit text, images, and multimedia files; and bring the whole package together for a self-running or manual slideshow. Exercise files accompany the course.